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There are two main schools of thought when it comes to technology's
effects on our lives. One is that technology (and advances in
technology) make our lives easier and perhaps better, giving us
more information and more updated information, connecting us in
ways we couldn't have dreamed of just a decade or two ago. Read More >

With the cost of college and thus student loan debt rising to
ridiculous levels, there are many who believe an undergraduate
degree is no longer worth pursuing. And that includes the very
wealthy and very well educated. Take Peter Thiel, for example.
Thiel is a big swinging PE investor and hedge fund manager who has
two degrees from Stanford, co-founded PayPal, was Facebook's first
external investor, and, at latest count, is worth well over $1.5
billion. Read More >

Baffled by the Greek crisis? Worried about the possibility of a
question coming up on your next job or college interview about the
roots of the problem? Check out this illuminating video from the
ever-on-top-of-the-situation folks over at Vox. In tracing the
issue back to the founding of the Euro, it serves as a great primer
on which to start building your seemingly off-the-cuff response the
next time "Would you recommend Grexit? Read More >

Kids these days, with their new-fangled gadgets and their lewd pop
music and their scandalous fashion sense and internet memes,
amirite? The only thing that's worse: us "grownups," consumed with
our bitter envy of their lifestyles and freedom and, well, general
youth. If you're looking for more fuel for your "things were better
back in my day" fire, check out the chart below, which shows that
summer employment rates among teenagers are perilously low. Read More >

Years ago, back when I worked as a freelancer, there was this bar
in Lower Manhattan that I frequented due to its notoriously good
Sunday night happy hour, which actually began on Monday morning,
that is, it began at the stroke of midnight-at 12 a.m. As I recall,
this bar would be nearly empty on Sundays until about 11:56 p.m.,
at which point the place would begin to fill up and, by 12:03 a.m.,
there wouldn't be an open seat in sight. Read More >

George Lucas went (to USC). Kathryn Bigelow went (to Columbia). And
Ang Lee and Martin Scorsese both went (to NYU). But there are
scores of other accomplished directors-including Quentin Tarantino,
Christopher Nolan, the Wachowskis, and Miranda July-that never set
foot inside a film school (except, perhaps, to screen one of their
films). Read More >

Except for processed meat and pie, there's nothing America loves
more than comebacks, underdogs, and crazy rambling acceptance
speeches. Which means America must love Matthew McConaughey, the
Texas-born actor who staged quite a career turnaround on his way to
an Academy Award in 2014, and gave quite a strange speech upon
accepting that award. Read More >

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I'm currently pursuing a Masters
degree online, which I'm 2 months into (or 4 credits out of
48). In my first post about the experience, I jokingly compared the
cost of going back to school to a number of different life events,
but there was one part of the costing process that I hadn't counted
on, and that I've found to be kind of infuriating so far. Read More >

It's graduation season, which means that it's also that time of
year where you start seeing lots of articles about the most
inspiring graduation speeches, along with the occasional piece on
how this generation is, like, the least well-equipped for the
workforce, like, everrrrr. Turns out, though, that the disdain runs
both ways: Accenture's most recent U.S. College Graduate Employment
study finds that just 15% of graduating students this year want to
work for a large company. Read More >